Science Units 6th and 7th grade
Water Molecule Unit
-Areas of Focus within the Water Molecule Unit:-Locations of Water on the Planet, Importance
of Water, Groundwater, Groundwater Pollution, The Water Molecule, Properties of Water,
Polarity, Cohesion, Adhesion, Capillary Action, High Specific Heat, Water has a Neutral pH,
Lower Density of Ice. Water is the Universal Solvent, Mixtures.

Rivers Unit and Water Quality Unit
-Areas of Focus within The Rivers and Water Quality Unit:Watersheds, Rivers of the United
States, Sections of a River, Parts of River (Vocabulary), Stream Order, Erosion and Deposition,
Water Quality, Chemical Properties of Water, Bio-Indicators of Water Quality (EPT richness),
Physical Properties of Water Quality, Rivers and Flooding, Factors that Control Flooding, Types
of Flooding,Tsunami’s, Wetlands, Flood Prevention, Levees, Dams and Ecosystem, Importance of
Dams, Impacts of Dams,Hydropower, Parts of Dam, Salmon (Life Cycle), Systems of Help
Salmon, Fish (General), Layering in a Lake, Lake Turnover, Nutrients and Lakes.
-Water Quality Assessment Lab Report on The Blackwater River.

Astronomy and Earth System History Unit
-Areas of Focus in the Astronomy unit:Earth System History and Time, Principle of
Superposition, Timeline of Earth, History and Events, Astronomy, The Solar System and the
Sun, Order of the Planets, Our Sun, Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, The Inner Planets, Mercury,
Venus, Earth, Moon, Craters, Tides, Phases of the Moon, Mars and Moons, Rocketry, Asteroid
Belt, NEO’s, The Outer Planets and Gas Giants, Jupiter / Moons, Saturn / Moons, Uranus /
Moons, Neptune / Moons, The Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, Comets / Other, Beyond the Solar
System, Blackholes, Exoplanets, The Big Bang, The Special Theory of Relativity, Hubble Space
Telescope, Constellations.

Life Topics Unit in Biology and Basic Organic Chemistry
-Areas of Focus within The Life Topics Unit: -What is SPONCH?, SPONCH / Biologically
Important Molecules, % of SPONCH in Living Things, Organic Building Blocks, Carbohydrates,
Simple to Complex Sugars, Proteins, Grrr (Growth, Repair, Reproduce, Regulate), Structural
Proteins, Lipids, Types of Fats, Nucleic Acids, What is inside a Twinkie?, Dangers of Obesity,
Why Fast Food Sells?, Dangers of Anorexia, Dangers of Bulimia nervosa, Dangers of Anabolic
Steroid Use, Nucleic Acids. DNA, RNA, What does it mean to be living?, Characteristics of
Living Things, Origins of Life (Other Theories), Origins of Life (Science Theory), Needs of
Living Things, Origins of the Universe (Timeline), Miller-Urey Experiment, Amino Acids, How
Water Aided in the Origin of Life, Human Evolution, Hominid Features, Evidences of Human
Evolution, Hominid Skulls.